Editors Quotes

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

A good novel editor is invisible.

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.

Everyone needs an editor.

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.

An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.

An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the flame.

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only what appeared to be big-boned acolytes who rose at dawn.

The credibility of the work depends on copy editors. I would argue with the copy desk, but I would thank them more.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.

The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.

I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.

I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything.

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.

Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.

An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

There is but one art, to omit.

Procrustes was an editor.

All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]

Our editors, I'm afraid, have come to believe that the photograph is an end in itself. They've forgotten that the photograph is only the subsidiary, the little brother, of the word.

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.

I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent.

It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.

Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell.

I work with a lot of different editors at different publishers and magazines and so on, and having a system of shared folders makes keeping track of things a snap.

All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.

The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!

An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better.

As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief.

[Lockyer]... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature. [Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.]

Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.

The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.